The Oxford Handbook of Ergativity
Edited by Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, and Lisa deMena Travis
Author Information
Jessica Coon is Associate Professor of Linguistics at McGill University. She finished her PhD at MIT in 2010 and then spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Jessica has worked on topics including ergativity, split ergativity, verb-initial word order, and agreement, with a special focus on Mayan languages. Her book Aspects of Split Ergativity was published by OUP in 2013.
Diane Massam (Ph.D. MIT 1985) is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto, where she has also served as Chair. Her research areas are argument structure, case, predication, and word order, with a focus on the Niue language (Polynesian), and an interest in register variation in English. She has edited volumes on Austronesian syntax, ergativity, and the count-mass distinction, including Count and Mass Across Languages (OUP 2012).
Lisa deMena Travis received her PhD in Linguistics from MIT in 1984, writing her thesis on the parameters of word order variation. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University. Her current research focuses mainly on phrase structure, head movement, language typology, and Austronesian languages (in particular, Malagasy), and the interface between syntax and phonology. Her book Inner Aspect: The Articulation of VP was published by Springer in 2010.
Contributors:
Judith Aissen, University of California, Santa Cruz
Edith Aldridge, University of Washington
Artemis Alexiadou, Humboldt University of Berlin
Jennifer Austin, Rutgers University
Mark C. Baker, Rutgers University
Edith Bavin, La Trobe University
Ane Berro, University of the Basque Country and Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Jonathan Bobaljik, University of Connecticut
Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz
Ashwini Deo, Yale University
John DuBois, University of California, Santa Barbara
Shobhana Chelliah, University of North Texas
Richard Compton, Université du Québec à Montréal
Jessica Coon, McGill University
Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, National University of Singapore
Ricardo Extepare, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Diana Forker, University of Bamberg
Geoffrey Haig, University of Bamberg
Alana Johns, University of Toronto
Daniel Kaufman, Queens College, CUNY
Geoffrey Khan, University of Cambridge
Ritsuko Kikusawa, National Museum of Ethnology and Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan.
Christa König, University of Frankfurt
Ivona Ku?erová, McMaster University
Itziar Laka, University of the Basque Country
Mary Laughren, University of Queensland
Julie Anne Legate, University of Pennsylvania
Theodore Levin, University of Maryland
Nicholas Longenbaugh, MIT
Anoop Mahajan, University of California, Los Angeles
Andrej L. Malchukov, St. Petersburg Institute for Linguistic Research and University of Mainz
Diane Massam, University of Toronto
William B. McGregor, Aarhus University
Gereon Mueller, Leipzig University
Léa Nash, University Paris 8
Yuko Otsuka, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Tyler Peterson, University of Arizona
Barbara Pfeiler, National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mérida
Maria Polinsky, University of Maryland
Omer Preminger, University of Maryland
Clifton Pye, University of Kansas
Francesc Queixalós, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Andrés Pablo Salanova, University of Ottawa
Eva Schultze-Berndt, University of Manchester
Michelle Sheehan, Anglia Ruskin University
Tarald Taraldsen, University of Tromsø
Daniela Thomas, Leipzig Universit
Lisa deMena Travis, McGill University
Kevin Tuite, Université de Montréal
Coppe van Urk, Queen Mary, University of London
Martina Wiltschko, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Ellen Woolford, University of Massachusetts
Adam Zawiszewski, University of the Basque Country